Beta 7 improves a lot of things, but most importantly it dramatically improves the speed in which a user's iTunes Library is loaded the first time.

Previously, MPFreaker would need to manually parse through every song in your library the first time, which would take several minutes for a large library. 1.8b7 defers this parsing to a background thread. Subsequent full-library loads are also slightly faster than before, as are loading of playlists.

If you're inclined to test this initial iTunes Library load time, here's how. While MPFreaker is not running, go to your home directory / Library / Caches, and trash the "MPFreaker Song Info" folder. The format of the cache files within this folder have now changed as well.

I ran some new albums through 1.8b9 and noticed that Little Snitch reported some differences in your Lyric look up sites since 1.7.4.

But I also noticed that another Lyric lookup/display widget I have which uses the free www.seekalyric.com hit on a whole bunch of tracks that MPFreaker's sites didn't.

Any chance of adding it to your pool? Personally, I'd rather use MPFreaker to automatically try as many sites as possible then have to click through tracks with a widget or run a couple of different apps to get the job done. (Kind of the point, correct? )

Looking at the server logs, I can see people downloading the beta at around the time of your post. Whatever was the issue, it may still remain. Or maybe there was a hiccup with the connection between us, and retrying it would have been successful.